On the left of this image is the Óglaıgh na hÉıreann mural (seen previously in Guess Who). On the right, on the back of the traffic sign, is “The Bog” and “IRA”. Lecky Road, Derry
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The Bog
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Victory To The IRA
Republican graffiti in Ferguson’s Street, Derry.
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Sınn Féın
The Sınn Féın lettering writ large in Creggan Heights, Derry (with the island of Ireland as a background, though this cannot be seen in the image above). The image below gives a much better sense of what the mural looked like under ordinary lighting.
See also All-Ireland Army, which was at the far end of this block of houses, at the junction with Linsfort Drive,
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Assemble Sunday 28 June Creggan Shops
Board with 9 Derry Brigade volunteers on the rear of Free Derry Corner.
Top: Jim Gallagher, Jimmy Carr, Colm Keenan, John Starrs, ?John McDaid?
Bottom: Eugene McGillan, Gerry Donaghey, John Brady, Junior McDaid
On the rear of Free Derry Corner, Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry. (Visual History)
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Victory To The IRA 1916-87
The brightly-coloured couple in the Coke ad are a stark contrast to the graffiti scrawled below.
Lecky Road, Derry
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End Of The Rossville Murals
The decline of Rossville flats and the murals below them. For images from earlier years, see Eire Nua | Resistance | Murdered By Paratroopers.
Rossville St, Derry. “Victory to the hunger strikers” can be seen on the city walls behind the flats.
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You Are Now Entering Free Derry
Free Derry Corner (Visual History) in 1987.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Beware Of A Risen People
This slogan might date to well before this image was taken in 1987
It was still visible in Twinbrook’s Summerhill Road in 2022.
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The West Has The Best
Writing on the Whiterock Road, Belfast: “The west has the best – vote Sınn Féın – vote Adams X”.
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Teaċ Ṡeosaıṁ Ṁıc Gıollaḃuí
Or, with h-lenition, Teach Sheosaımh Mhıc Gıollabhuí. The Sınn Féın press centre on the Falls Road, Belfast, is named for anti-Treaty IRA man Joe McKelvey, who was also the founder of the O’Donovan Rossa GAA club in Belfast. The mural features the shields of the four provinces and Sınn Féın in Celtic-style lettering.
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